1983 Giro d'Italia

The 1983 Giro d'Italia was the 66th running of the Giro. It started in Brescia, on 12 May, with an 8 km (5.0 mi) prologue and concluded in Udine, on 5 June, with a 40 km (24.9 mi) individual time trial. A total of 162 riders from eighteen teams entered the 22-stage race, that was won by Italian Giuseppe Saronni of the Del Tongo-Colnago team. The second and third places were taken by Italian Roberto Visentini and Spaniard Alberto Fernández, respectively.^[1][2][3][4]

1983 Giro d'Italia

Race details
Dates	12 May - 5 June 1983
Stages	22 + Prologue, including one split stage
Distance	3,922 km (2,437 mi)
Winning time	100h 45' 30"
Results
Winner  Giuseppe Saronni (ITA) (Del Tongo-Colnago)   Second  Roberto Visentini (ITA) (Inoxpran)   Third  Alberto Fernández (ESP) (Zor) Points  Giuseppe Saronni (ITA) (Del Tongo-Colnago) Mountains  Lucien Van Impe (BEL) (Metauro Mobili-Pinarello)   Youth  Franco Chioccioli (ITA) (Vivi-Benotto)   Team Zor-Gemeaz Cusin
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Amongst the other classifications that the race awarded, Saronni won the points classification, Lucien Van Impe of Metauro Mobili won the mountains classification, and Vivi-Benotto's Franco Chioccioli completed the Giro as the best neo-professional in the general classification, finishing sixteenth overall. Renault-Elf finishing as the winners of the team classification, ranking each of the twenty teams contesting the race by lowest cumulative time. The team points classification was won by Zor-Gemeaz Cusin.

Teams

For a more comprehensive list, see List of teams and cyclists in the 1983 Giro d'Italia.

The team presentation ceremony took place on 10 May at the Piazza della Loggia in Brescia.

A total of eighteen teams were invited to participate in the 1983 Giro d'Italia.^[5] Each team sent a squad of nine riders, which meant that the race started with a peloton of 162 cyclists.^[6][7] The presentation of the teams – where each team's roster and manager are introduced in front the media and local dignitaries – took place at the Piazza della Loggia in Brescia on 10 May and was televised in Italy on Network 1.^[7] From the riders that began this edition, 140 made it to the finish in Udine.^[1][6]

The teams entering the race were:^[5]

Alfa Lum-Olmo Atala-Campagnolo Bianchi-Piaggio Malvor-Bottecchia Del Tongo-Colnago Dromedario-Alan

Europ Decor-Dries Zor-Gemeaz Cusin Gis Gelati-Campagnolo Perlav-Euro Soap Inoxpran-Lumenflon Eorotex-Magniflex

Mareno-Wilier Triestina Metauro Mobili Sammontana-Campagnolo Termolan-Galli Vivi-Benotto Wolber-Spidel

Route and stages

Colli di San Fermo hosted the end of the 91 km (57 mi) seventeenth stage.

The route for the 1983 edition of the Giro d'Italia was revealed to the public by head organizer Vincenzo Torriani on 19 February 1983.^[8][9][10] Covering a total of 3,922 km (2,437 mi), it included four time trials (three individual and one for teams), and fifteen stages with categorized climbs that awarded mountains classification points.^[6][10] Seven of these fifteen stages had summit finishes: stage 4, to Todi; stage 6, to Campitello Matese; stage 9, to Montefiascone; stage 10, to Bibbiena; stage 15, to Orta San Giulio; stage 17, to Colli di San Fermo; and stage 19, to Selva di Val Gardena.^[9] The organizers chose to include two rest days. When compared to the previous year's race, the race was 88.5 km (55 mi) shorter and contained one more time trial. In addition, this race contained one more set of split stages.

Stage characteristics and winners^[6][10]

Stage	Date	Course	Distance	Type		Winner
P	12 May	Brescia	8 km (5 mi)		Individual time trial	Stage Cancelled
1	13 May	Brescia to Mantua	70 km (43 mi)		Team time trial	Bianchi-Piaggio
2	14 May	Mantua to Comacchio	192 km (119 mi)		Plain stage	Guido Bontempi (ITA)
3	15 May	Comacchio to Fano	148 km (92 mi)		Plain stage	Paolo Rosola (ITA)
4	16 May	Pesaro to Todi	187 km (116 mi)		Stage with mountain(s)	Giuseppe Saronni (ITA)
5	17 May	Terni to Vasto	269 km (167 mi)		Stage with mountain(s)	Eduardo Chozas (ESP)
6	18 May	Vasto to Campitello Matese	145 km (90 mi)		Stage with mountain(s)	Alberto Fernández (ESP)
7	19 May	Campitello Matese to Salerno	216 km (134 mi)		Stage with mountain(s)	Moreno Argentin (ITA)
8	20 May	Salerno to Terracina	212 km (132 mi)		Plain stage	Guido Bontempi (ITA)
9	21 May	Terracina to Montefiascone	225 km (140 mi)		Stage with mountain(s)	Riccardo Magrini (ITA)
10	22 May	Montefiascone to Bibbiena	232 km (144 mi)		Stage with mountain(s)	Palmiro Masciarelli (ITA)
11	23 May	Bibbiena to Pietrasanta	202 km (126 mi)		Stage with mountain(s)	Lucien Van Impe (BEL)
	24 May	Rest day
12	25 May	Pietrasanta to Reggio Emilia	180 km (112 mi)		Stage with mountain(s)	Alf Segersäll (SWE)
13	26 May	Reggio Emilia to Parma	38 km (24 mi)		Individual time trial	Giuseppe Saronni (ITA)
14	27 May	Parma to Savona	243 km (151 mi)		Stage with mountain(s)	Gregor Braun (FRG)
15	28 May	Savona to Orta San Giulio	219 km (136 mi)		Stage with mountain(s)	Paolo Rosola (ITA)
16a	29 May	Orta San Giulio to Milan	110 km (68 mi)		Plain stage	Frank Hoste (BEL)
16b		Milan to Bergamo	100 km (62 mi)		Stage with mountain(s)	Giuseppe Saronni (ITA)
17	30 May	Bergamo to Colli di San Fermo	91 km (57 mi)		Stage with mountain(s)	Alberto Fernández (ESP)
18	31 May	Sarnico to Vicenza	178 km (111 mi)		Stage with mountain(s)	Paolo Rosola (ITA)
	1 June	Rest day
19	2 June	Vicenza to Selva di Val Gardena	224 km (139 mi)		Stage with mountain(s)	Mario Beccia (ITA)
20	3 June	Selva di Val Gardena to Arabba	169 km (105 mi)		Stage with mountain(s)	Alessandro Paganessi (ITA)
21	4 June	Arabba to Gorizia	232 km (144 mi)		Plain stage	Moreno Argentin (ITA)
22	5 June	Gorizia to Udine	40 km (25 mi)		Individual time trial	Roberto Visentini (ITA)
	Total		3,922 km (2,437 mi)

Classification leadership

The Pordoi Pass was the Cima Coppi for the 1983 running of the Giro d'Italia.

Four different jerseys were worn during the 1983 Giro d'Italia. The leader of the general classification – calculated by adding the stage finish times of each rider, and allowing time bonuses for the first three finishers on mass-start stages – wore a pink jersey. This classification is the most important of the race, and its winner is considered as the winner of the Giro.^[11]

For the points classification, which awarded a purple (or cyclamen) jersey to its leader, cyclists were given points for finishing a stage in the top 15; additional points could also be won in intermediate sprints. The green jersey was awarded to the mountains classification leader. In this ranking, points were won by reaching the summit of a climb ahead of other cyclists. Each climb was ranked as either first, second or third category, with more points available for higher category climbs. The Cima Coppi, the race's highest point of elevation, awarded more points than the other first category climbs.^[11] The Cima Coppi for this Giro was the Pordoi Pass. The first rider to cross the Pordoi Pass was Spanish rider Marino Lejarreta. The white jersey was worn by the leader of young rider classification, a ranking decided the same way as the general classification, but considering only neo-professional cyclists (in their first three years of professional racing).^[11] Although no jersey was awarded, there was also one classification for the teams, in which the stage finish times of the best three cyclists per team were added; the leading team was the one with the lowest total time.^[11]

The rows in the following table correspond to the jerseys awarded after that stage was run.

Classification leadership by stage

Stage	Winner	General classification	Points classification	Mountains classification	Young rider classification	Team classification
P	Stage Cancelled	not awarded	not awarded	not awarded	not awarded	not awarded
1	Bianchi-Piaggio	Tommy Prim				Bianchi-Piaggio
2	Guido Bontempi	Urs Freuler	Guido Bontempi		?
3	Paolo Rosola	Paolo Rosola	Paolo Rosola
4	Giuseppe Saronni			Harald Maier
5	Eduardo Chozas	Silvano Contini	Giuseppe Saronni	Lucien Van Impe	Fabrizio Verza
6	Alberto Fernández			Alberto Fernández		Metauro Mobili-Pinarello
7	Moreno Argentin	Giuseppe Saronni		Lucien Van Impe
8	Guido Bontempi
9	Riccardo Magrini
10	Palmiro Masciarelli
11	Lucien Van Impe
12	Alf Segersäll
13	Giuseppe Saronni				Franco Chioccioli
14	Gregor Braun
15	Paolo Rosola
16a	Frank Hoste
16b	Giuseppe Saronni
17	Alberto Fernández					Zor-Gemeaz Cusin
18	Paolo Rosola
19	Mario Beccia
20	Alessandro Paganessi
21	Moreno Argentin
22	Roberto Visentini
Final		Giuseppe Saronni	Giuseppe Saronni	Lucien Van Impe	Franco Chioccioli	Zor-Gemeaz Cusin

Final standings

Legend
	Denotes the winner of the General classification[6]		Denotes the winner of the Mountains classification[6]
	Denotes the winner of the Points classification[6]		Denotes the winner of the Young rider classification[6]

General classification

Final general classification (1–10)^[6]

Rank	Name	Team	Time
1	Giuseppe Saronni (ITA)	Del Tongo-Colnago	100h 45' 30"
2	Roberto Visentini (ITA)	Inoxpran-Lumenflon	+ 1' 07"
3	Alberto Fernández (ESP)	Zor-Gemeaz Cusin	+ 3' 40"
4	Mario Beccia (ITA)	Malvor-Bottecchia	+ 5' 55"
5	Dietrich Thurau (FRG)	Del Tongo-Colnago	+ 7' 44"
6	Marino Lejarreta (ESP)	Alfa Lum-Olmo	+ 7' 47"
7	Faustino Rupérez Rincón (ESP)	Zor-Gemeaz Cusin	+ 8' 24"
8	Eduardo Chozas Olmo (ESP)	Zor-Gemeaz Cusin	+ 9' 41"
9	Lucien Van Impe (BEL)	Metauro Mobili	+ 10' 54"
10	Wladimiro Panizza (ITA)	Atala-Campagnolo	+ 12' 00"

Points classification

Final points classification (1-5)^[6]

	Rider	Team	Points
1	Giuseppe Saronni (ITA)	Del Tongo-Colnago	223
2	Moreno Argentin (ITA)	Sammontana	149
3	Frank Hoste (BEL)	Europ Decor-Dries	139
4	Pierino Gavazzi (ITA)	Atala-Campagnolo	120
5	Stefan Mutter (SUI)	Eorotex-Magniflex	111

Mountains classification

Final mountains classification (1-5)^[6][12]

	Rider	Team	Points
1	Lucien Van Impe (BEL)	Metauro Mobili	70
2	Alberto Fernández (ESP)	Zor-Gemeaz Cusin	43
3	Marino Lejarreta (ESP)	Alfa Lum-Olmo	27
	Faustino Rupérez (ESP)	Zor-Gemeaz Cusin
5	Alessandro Paganessi (ITA)	Bianchi-Piaggio	23

Young rider classification

Final young rider classification (1-5)^[6]

	Rider	Team	Time
1	Franco Chioccioli (ITA)	Vivi-Benotto	101h 00" 52"
2	Fabrizio Verza (ITA)	Gis Gelati-Campagnolo	+ 12' 16"
3	Harald Maier (AUT)	Eorotex-Magniflex	+ 20' 32"
4	Davide Cassani (ITA)	Termolan-Galli	+ 30' 27"
5	Czesław Lang (POL)	Gis Gelati-Campagnolo	+ 35' 13"

Team classification

Final team classification (1-3)^[6]

	Team	Time
1	Zor-Gemeaz Cusin	300h 05' 39"
2	Inoxpran-Lumenflon	+ 10' 45"
3	Del Tongo-Colnago	+ 17' 30"